Messages in this thread | | | From | Hector Martin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 2/7] dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: apple,aic2: New binding for AICv2 | Date | Sat, 26 Feb 2022 06:58:34 +0900 |
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On 26/02/2022 05.19, Rob Herring wrote: >> +properties: >> + compatible: >> + items: >> + - const: apple,t6000-aic >> + - const: apple,aic2 > > I feel I was sold on Apple doesn't change h/w and we're the 2nd chip in > and the h/w changed. Just my musings, but aic3 will be rejected. :(
Well yes, after not changing hardware for N phone/tablet generations, they figured out they *finally* had to make some changes for real desktop chips... (t8103 was a tablet chip they shoehorned into laptops; t6000 is the first real laptop/desktop chip). This isn't the 2nd chip in, this is the 26th chip in or so, and yet it's called AIC2 (by Apple even)... We aren't starting from chip #1, just the first chip they decided to *let* us put Linux on.
It's pretty clear that the t6000 changes were made with future-proofing in mind. I guess we'll find out in a couple weeks, since the rumor mill says M2 is coming. If I'm right and we end up needing *zero* kernel changes to boot on M2, will you be happy? ;-)
>> + apple,event-reg: >> + $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32 >> + description: >> + Specifies the offset of the event register, which lies after all the >> + implemented die register sets, page aligned. This is not computable from >> + capability register values, so we have to specify it explicitly. > > If this is last, then couldn't it be a 2nd 'reg' entry? > > 'page aligned' is ambiguous. I assume that means 16K since that's what > Apple uses, but I might assume 4K not knowing that.
16K, and yeah, it could be a 2nd reg entry if you think that works better. Makes sense.
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